BEIJING, CHINA, September 8, 2003 - SOHU.com (NASDAQ: SOHU), China's leading online media, communications, commerce and mobile value-added services company, today announced the appointments of Mary Ma of Legend Group and Dr. Ya-Qin Zhang of Microsoft Research Asia to its Board of Directors. The appointments are effective immediately.

Mary Ma Xuezheng is Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Legend Group, the PC market leader in China and one of the 10 largest computer manufacturers worldwide. Ms. Ma is responsible for strategic investment, financial and treasury management, corporate marketing, listing affairs, overseas business development and motherboard business of the Group. She has over 26 years of experience in financial and executive management, having graduated from Capital Normal University in 1976 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Ms. Ma will join the Audit Committee of the SOHU Board of Directors.

Dr. Ya-Qin Zhang is Managing Director of Microsoft Research Asia, Microsoft’s basic research arm in the Asia-Pacific region with over 200 world-class researchers and scientists. Before joining Microsoft in 1999, Mr. Zhang was the Director of Multimedia Technology Laboratory at Sarnoff Corporation in Princeton, NJ, and worked at Verizon Corporation (former GTE). Dr. Zhang has been engaged in research and commercialization of MPEG2/DTV, MPEG4/VLBR, and multimedia information technologies. He received his Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from George Washington University, Washington D.C. in 1989, and is a Fellow of IEEE, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

“Mary Ma’s extensive corporate and financial experience and Ya-Qin Zhang’s communications technology expertise will bring depth to the SOHU board of directors. We welcome their support in expanding SOHU’s business and brand leadership in the rapidly growing Chinese Internet industry,” said Chairman and CEO of SOHU, Dr. Charles Zhang.

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About SOHU.com
SOHU.com is the leading Internet portal in Mainland China with current daily page views exceeding 12 million. It provides navigation/search, news, sports, business and finance, real estate channel, entertainment, chat, email and e-commerce activities for a solid and wide base of visitors. Dr. Charles Zhang founded SOHU.com in 1997. Its investors include Intel, Dow Jones, IDG, the Morningside China Group, PCCW, Legend and Hikari. Its content partners include CNET, DOW Jones and dozens of local media organizations in China.

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